Earth First! Occupies Director’s Office at E.On HQ (Netherlands)

14.04.2009
Four activists from Groen­Front! (the Dutch Earth First!) occu­pied a direc­tor’s office at the head office of ener­gy giant E.On today in Rot­ter­dam. The activists told the peo­ple work­ing at the office that they were look­ing for the direc­tors for a ‘seri­ous chat’ about the planned con­struc­tion of a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion in Rot­ter­dam. Although legal issues should have hin­dered E.On on start­ing con­struc­tion at the site, work has has been pushed ahead regard­less. Activist Roos van Dijck: ” Build­ing a coal fired pow­er sta­tion now is crim­i­nal, solv­ing the cli­mate cri­sis starts with keep­ing coal in the ground. ”

e-ON-F-off square logo14.04.2009
Four activists from Groen­Front! (the Dutch Earth First!) occu­pied a direc­tor’s office at the head office of ener­gy giant E.On today in Rot­ter­dam. The activists told the peo­ple work­ing at the office that they were look­ing for the direc­tors for a ‘seri­ous chat’ about the planned con­struc­tion of a new coal fired pow­er sta­tion in Rot­ter­dam. Although legal issues should have hin­dered E.On on start­ing con­struc­tion at the site, work has has been pushed ahead regard­less. Activist Roos van Dijck: ” Build­ing a coal fired pow­er sta­tion now is crim­i­nal, solv­ing the cli­mate cri­sis starts with keep­ing coal in the ground. ”

The four activists occu­pied the room of Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer Markus Bokel­mann. Although he has var­i­ous books on sus­tain­able busi­ness­ing on his book shelf, he does­n’t seem to be able to put this into prac­tice yet. Police arrived after a few hours and arrest­ed the activists. None of the E.On direc­tors were will­ing to par­tic­i­pate in a con­ver­sa­tion about the planned con­struc­tion of the pow­er plant.